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10/18/2012

Decades
of confidential sexual abuse allegations from within the Boy Scouts of America
will spill into public view later today when more than 1,200 of the
organization’s “perversion files” are released by order of the Oregon Supreme
Court.

The
files will offer the public an unprecedented look at how suspected molestations
were handled by one of the nation’s leading youth organizations from the early
1960s through 1985, a time when awareness of sexual abuse was evolving rapidly.

At
11:30 a.m., the Los Angeles Times will begin incorporating the court files into
its own online database, which contains information on nearly 5,000 such cases
spanning 1947 to January 2005. The database offers a complete record of
files during that period except for an unknown number of files that have been
purged by the Scouts over the years. In more than 300 cases, the allegations
involve someone with ties to a troop or unit in California.

The
abuse reports to be released today played a key role as evidence in a landmark
Oregon lawsuit in 2010 that resulted in the largest judgment ever against the
Scouts in a molestation case. A jury awarded nearly $20 million to a man who
was molested by an assistant scoutmaster in the early 1980s, ruling that the
Scouts had failed to protect him.

Afterward,
the Boy Scouts petitioned to keep the files closed, a move opposed by media
outlets seeking their full disclosure. In June, the Oregon Supreme Court sided
with the Oregonian newspaper, the Associated Press, the New York Times, Oregon
Public Broadcasting and other outlets and ordered their release after victim
information had been redacted.

In
recent months, The Times has published a series of stories analyzing an
overlapping set of files — nearly 1,900 cases, opened between 1970 and 1991,
given to the newspaper by a Seattle attorney. Among other things, the analysis
found that hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse were never reported to law
enforcement, and Scouting officials repeatedly helped alleged molesters cover
their tracks.

As
The Times reported Wednesday, the files show a clear pattern of “grooming
behavior” that allegedmolesters used to seduce their victims, and often to
ensure their silence.

Media
organizations from across the country are expected to mine the files released
later today, and legal experts say some of the revelations in the files could
lead to lawsuits against the Boy Scouts over their handling of alleged abuse.

The
Scouts have warned that the release of the files could have a chilling effect
on the reporting of alleged abuse. For nearly a century, the Scouts have
maintained the national archive, known inside the organization as the
“perversion files,” as a way of preventing men suspected of abuse from
reentering Scouting.

Although
never intended for public release, hundreds of files have been submitted
as evidence in lawsuits over the years, generally under seal.

The
files contain detailed — though often incomplete — accounts of alleged abuse,
including handwritten accounts by young victims, court records, police reports
and correspondence between local and national Scout officials. Many of the
alleged incidents were never reported to the police, so the allegations have
not been heard in court.

The
Oregon Supreme Court ordered information about the alleged abuse victims
redacted from the files. The names, however, of 1,247 men who were expelled
from Scouting because of the allegations in the files will be released to the
public.